Professor Howard Davis - Research

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Research Interests

Social theories of culture and creativity; cultural formations and transitions in post-Soviet societies; social implications of new technologies; the formation of social identities at local, national and international levels; research methods for the sociological analysis of culture, media and communications.

Recent and current research grants:

2008-11 The Evolution of European Identity: Using biographical methods to study the development of European identity (EU 7th Framework Programme)
Leader of Bangor team including Dr Sally Baker (Research Fellow) and Marta Kowalska (researcher assistant). This three year project is coordinated by Professor Robert Miller from Queen’s University, Belfast. The other partners are from the Institute of Sociology, Magdeburg, Germany; the Department of European Culture Studies, University of Lodz, Poland; the School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia; the Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria; and the Department of Sociology, ‘Frederico II’ University, Naples, Italy.
Project website: http://www.euroidentities.org

2007 Mothers, wives and changing lives: uncovering the forgotten histories of women in mid-twentieth century Wales (British Academy Small Research Grant, SG-45236 – Dr Sally Baker, Research Associate)

2006-07 Creativity in Film and Television in an Interactive Environment (AHRC Nature of Creativity Workshops – with Dr Christine Daymon, Bournemouth University) http://www.cemp.ac.uk/Creativitynetwork/

2005-07 Tolerance and Intolerance in the Post-Soviet Press: Applying New Methods of Measurement and Evaluation (EU INTAS Thematic project 04-79-6813) http://www.sociocult.ksu.ru/?pid=147

2005-07 Discourses of Identity and Diversity: representation of migration in the British and Russian press (EU INTAS 04-83-3517 Young Scientist Fellowship - Dr Anna Sosnovskaya)

2005 Questions of Collective Identity in Europe (British Academy research grant for international workshop, with Professor R Miller, Queen’s, Belfast)

2004-05 In-Migration to North Wales: Social Identity and Interaction (University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies. Co-investigator G. Day; Research Associate Dr A. Drakakis-Smith)